PowerShell in Depth: An administrator's guide

Book Description

Summary

PowerShell in Depth is the kind of book you'll want open
on your desk most of the time. With 40 short chapters, each focused
on a specific area of PowerShell, you'll be able to find the
answers you need quickly. Each chapter is concise and to-the-point,
so you can spend less time reading and more time getting down to
the business at hand. It was written by three seasoned PowerShell
experts, and every technique has been thoroughly tested. With this
book in hand, you'll be able to consistently and quickly produce
production quality, maintainable scripts that will save you
countless hours of time and effort.

About this Book

Organized into 40 concise chapters, PowerShell in Depth is the
go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell.
Every major shell technique, technology, and tactic is explained
and demonstrated, providing a comprehensive reference to almost
everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three
experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell
book you’ll keep next to your monitor—not on your
bookshelf!

This book requires basic familiarity with PowerShell.

What's Inside

Covers PowerShell 3.0

Automating time-consuming tasks

Managing HTML and XML data

Background jobs and scheduling

PowerShell security

Packaging and deploying scripts

Standard scripting conventions

Using the .NET Framework in PowerShell scripts

Much more

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle,
and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Authors

Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks, and Richard
Siddaway are Microsoft MVPs who have collectively authored
nearly three dozen books on PowerShell and Windows
administration.